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Randy Covitz, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs RB Larry Johnson returned from his one-game suspension Monday, Nov. 10, and should play in Week 11, according to head coach Herman Edwards. "Oh yeah," Edwards replied when asked whether Johnson will play this week. "He's doing well. He's excited about getting going. We had a good discussion about where he's at, what he's trying to do. Just come in here and get ready to play and find your niche in what we're trying to do."

Clark Judge, of CBSSports.com, reports the Kansas City Chiefs intend to draft a quarterback in the 2009 NFL Draft because of the injury history of QB Brodie Croyle. "We've got to move on," head coach Herman Edwards said. "We can't juggle the ball again. It's holding the whole football team up if we do, and he knows that. I spoke to him, and he knows what the situation is now."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports the Kansas City Chiefs have recorded just three sacks in five games this season, none of which have come from the team's starting defensive linemen. "We haven't done a good job of that with our four guys," head coach Herman Edwards said. "We've got two rookie cornerbacks out there. You've got to make the quarterback uncomfortable in the pocket and not sit back there. It doesn't matter who you've got covering (receivers)."

Adam Teicher, of The Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards said the Chiefs would have went for a two-point conversion if they would have scored late in their Week 1 game. "Absolutely. We wanted to win the game. I just felt that at that point, you've got to go for two. There was no question in my mind. I already knew the play we were going to run and it had a chance to go," Edwards said.

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards said he expects at least five draft picks in this year's NFL Draft to start for the team in 2008. "We're not drafting all of these guys to develop them," Edwards said. "We're drafting some of these guys to play. It's not only about their talent, but it's about whether they can handle it, whether they can handle lining up and starting. That's what we're dealing with this year, and that's OK."

KCChiefs.com reports The Kansas City Chiefs will host the 2nd Annual Chiefs Kids Camp Tuesday, June 10, at Arrowhead Stadium and the Chiefs Practice Facility. The camp will feature a curriculum designed for boys and girls with an emphasis on physical fitness, fun, teamwork and football. Campers will be divided into two age groups, five to eight years old and nine to 12 years old. The four-hour camp will include a welcome from Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards.

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said the team has a long-range plan of building with younger players, particularly through the NFL Draft. Hunt added he is on the same page as head coach Herman Edwards. "Philosophically, he and I are on the same page, which is to build the team through the draft and develop a young franchise quarterback along the way," Hunt said. "I want our head coach to share that philosophy. He likes to and will play young players. It's one thing to say you want to build a team that way, but if you're not willing to develop and play those players in a relatively short time frame, you don't really know about them when their contract comes up. With Herm, those players are going to play and we're going to know about every one of them."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Chiefs, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards described the offense he would like to see in 2008. He may include some features of the West Coast offense, but with some changes. "I want the ability to play fast-break offense. Some weeks, that's going to be the best way for us to win. You have to be able to take advantage of people's weaknesses. If you're playing a team that isn't very good when they get into their nickel defense, you might have to throw the ball 40 times if that's the best way for us to win the game. But you have to have an offense that has the ability to do that," Edwards said.

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards is committed to letting some of the team's younger players an opportunity to see more action this season. "The quarterback is one position you don't bring along too fast," Edwards said. "You figure when he can go, he'll go. Other positions, you can spot-play them. We can give them the ability to go into a game and have a little role and from there, if they have some success, build on that role."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports the Kansas City Chiefs do not view improving the wide receiver position as a top priority. The team did not address the position in free agency, while the only top receiver prospect known to be visiting the team prior to the NFL Draft is Tennessee WR Robert Meachem. Head coach Herman Edwards said WR Jeff Webb and WR Chris Hannon will be given an opportunity to contribute in 2007. "We've got two young guys, and I want to see whether they can play or not," Edwards said of Webb and Hannon. "I know one thing: We don't cover them in practice very well."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards suggested Tuesday, March 27, that a quarterback may have to beat out QB Brodie Croyle by a wide margin during offseason practices and training camp in order to win the team's starting job. "You have to make certain judgments with your football team," Edwards said. "If I go with a veteran guy, how much better would we be than if I play the young guy? Is that going to allow me to win one or two more games? Or, do I look at it like I'm trying to build a championship team?"

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards feels LB Donnie Edwards will have an impact defensively with his speed and cover skills, even though Edwards has not played previously in a Cover 2 scheme. "In this system, you have to have linebackers that can play in space," Edwards said. "Donnie can play in space. He can tackle in space. He can defend the pass. That's what he does well. He's not a guy that can take on guards all day. He's not built for it. That's not one of his strengths, so we're not going to ask him to do that a whole lot. But he can run and cover tights ends and backs. The guy's got a lot of interceptions."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs QB Brodie Croyle will receive much of the work during the team's offseason practices in May and at training camp, according to head coach Herman Edwards. "He's going to get an opportunity," Edwards said. "Maybe it doesn't work out. But at least you'll know. That's not to say he's going to be the starter. I don't know who that guy is going to be at this point. But it needs to be open for competition, in my opinion, from what happened last year. It's just the way we need to go."

The Associated Press reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards would like to see the NFL have a harsher punishment policy for players who get in trouble off the field. "There needs to be a hard line, in my opinion. You can't throw softballs," Edwards said. He said he would support whatever punishment policy the league implements in upcoming discussions with the NFLPA, but he does not believe "wrist-slapping" fines are the answer. "I've never been a big proponent of fining players. Players, last time I checked, if they don't get to play, they understand that. If they don't get to play, that's what they understand. You don't dress. You don't play. Go home. You sit there and you watch. I just think eventually that's what it has to come to. I know that's hard."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards promises offensive changes for the team in 2007. While Edwards did not specify what changes would be made, the team could incorporate a new scheme and possibly have a new starting quarterback. Edwards added that offensive coordinator Mike Solari will be retained.

Elizabeth Merrill, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs QB Trent Green could be pulled in favor of QB Damon Huard should Green struggle in the team's playoff game versus the Indianapolis Colts, according to head coach Herman Edwards. "You have to win the game," Edwards said. "There's no tomorrow. And you have to do whatever is best for the football team at that point. I'll do whatever I have to do. When you're in the playoffs, you're desperate."

Updating a previous item, Jay Glazer, of FOXSports.com, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards has named QB Trent Green as the starting quarterback for the team's Week 11 game. "We're going to go with Trent as our starter," Edwards said. "This has been his football team for a long time. I think his return will give us a shot of adrenaline. But Trent alone won't allow us to win games. We all have to circle around him and play better and coach better if we're going to win games down the stretch."

Elizabeth Merrill, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards will not make a decision on who his starting quarterback will be for Week 11 until later in the week. "Why would I let the Raiders know what I'm going to do?" Edwards asked. "That wouldn't be very smart."

Elizabeth Merrill, of the Kansas City Star, reports former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil has taken exception to critics who feel current head coach Herman Edwards is too conservative offensively. "The system's the same," Vermeil said. "I don't think they're not trying to score, you know? I know the coaches. I've talked with them. They've had some pass protection problems, and that limits you some. And sometimes there's a little different approach to using the same scheme. But I think they'll hit a happy medium, a very pleasant medium with the offense. It'll be very efficient."

Elizabeth Merrill, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards lashed back at reporters during his press conference Tuesday, Sept. 12, who feel that Edwards' conservative style is holding the team's offense back. "Conservative? I was conservative in this game? If the people went to watch the Kansas City Chiefs play, that's the same offense they've watched for the last five years — shifts, motions. …," Edwards said. "Maybe I should change, because if we're only going to score 10 points and we'll get the quarterback killed, then maybe I should change the offense. But that's the same offense these fans have been watching for the last five years, and it wasn't clicking on all cylinders."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards says his team is not where he wants them to be after a shaky preseason. However, Edwards expects his team to be much improved throughout the season. "You're not where you want to be," Edwards said. "No one is. That's the great thing about our league. You build your football team as the season goes along. We have to be better after four weeks than you are the first four, and after eight you have to be a lot better football team. I think we'll do that."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards wants his team to play with more emotion and urgency versus the St. Louis Rams Saturday, Aug. 26, after losing their first two preseason games. "This is a game we've got to play with much more urgency and emotion," coach Herm Edwards said. "I'm pretty sure guys will do that." "Is it time to panic? No. But I think we definitely have to have a sense of urgency going into next week's game," added QB Trent Green.

Tully Corcoran, of the Topeka Capital-Journal, reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards says the team has become complacent. "Right now, we're a team, in my estimation, living off our laurels. We're living off what people are predicting us to be. Us thinking that we're a good football team, we haven't played like that yet," said Edwards. The team has lost two preseason games and not shown any improvement on defense.

KCChiefs.com reports Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards said his team's inability to convert on third down in the first half (0-for-4) and penalties were the main reasons for the offensive struggles by the Chiefs in a 17-0 loss to the New York Giants Thursday, Aug. 17. Edwards said the defense allowed three long scoring drives against them and a team can not do that on the road and expect to win, "They got three drives on us and they were all long drives – nine plays, 10 plays and nine plays. They got 14 points on us. You can't play like that on the road. You've got to make first downs offensively."

During his press conference Tuesday, Aug. 8, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards voiced his displeasure over the offense's inability to execute during a four-minute drill. "A little bit disappointing in the situations we had today. We're going to have to get better at certain situations, especially in four minutes (to go in a game). I preach that; I believe that. We're going to have a mindset of playing better football offensively with four minutes (to go) where we can't always rely on going back and throwing passes to make first downs."

During his press conference Friday, July 28, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards stressed the fact that he did not want OT Willie Roaf's retirement to serve as a distraction. "What I don't want to do is distract the guys on this football team that are here and just went through their first day of practice. That, to me, is more important than anything because these are the guys that are here, the guys that are getting coached today and the guys that are obviously trying to win a job. That's the most important thing."

Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports the Kansas City Chiefs days of having a big-play offense appear to be gone now that head coach Herman Edwards has control of the team. QB Trent Green said, "I've had many meetings with coach Edwards and talked with him about what his game plan is and what his style is in terms of game management. We talked about the way we were a big-play offense and the way we really threw the ball around and those kinds of things. If we're winning, that's great. I don't have a problem with that."

Elizabeth Merrill, of the Kansas City Star, reports the Kansas City Chiefs currently have 13 receivers on their roster going into training camp. "I'll just tell you that it's a good group of guys," Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards said. "It's going to be tough at the end of the day keeping whoever we keep, the fourth or fifth guy, but that's good."